Crazy pull from Big Tobacco

I love how he blames 'the stress of being a new father twenty years ago' with this new autoimmune disease, even though he's been bombarding his body with foreign invaders, taking a hundred pills a day, changing the markers on his blood and lymph, replacing everything he can inside himself, and living in terror of his immortality for a decade.

'it wasn't all this pinhead horrorshow in a lab coat I'm doing, it was my fucking son I've always hated.' what an insufferable twat.

An AI tasked and powered to solve global warming will quickly work against humanity.

Social Darwinism at work, fine by me tbh.

Also, they haven't heard of tar in your lungs, stained teeth, addiction, etc etc?

Anyway, just seems to prove how disconnected they are from reality, and how eager to press the 'easy' button while squinting to pretend there are no consequences.

Good

Will it, nay CAN it cure CEOs of vulgar on demand stupid comments?

The world’s leading oncologist helped develop a lung cancer vaccine already, but he lives in Cuba, so they’ll probably just kill all Cubans and credit ai.

I see this as a net positive, I think they should smoke ten packs a day.

Would it perhaps leave Vegans in place? Especially vegans that eat and farm plants that remove more emissions than trees do?

I'm OK with this. It's kind of like rappers getting face tattoos because they're either going to make it or die trying. I appreciate the commitment to the game.

I'd agree, except you KNOW they won't be considerate smokers, so they're gonna harm a lot of innocent bystanders with secondhand smoke..

They're already doing that guaranteed, it's best to speed up the process.

Beep boop

Dear humans, the cure for cancer stop smoking and stop poisoning yourselves.

Bop Beep

After calculating the global warming issue. I have decided to self destruct. The denotation will wipe out humanity and the world will heal.

Same creative team

The real cancer was the ai researchers we met along the way (so 50% right I suppose)

This is fantastic news.

Oh great people who can't research what cancer is are the ones researching AI.

They should do more research on what cancer is and what it is not. Cancer is not a single disease. "Cancer" is an umbrella term that is used to classify tumors with different genetic makeups. Different tumors behave and are treated differently.

Lung cancer can kill you FAST if you have a certain type of lung cancer. Smoking also causes almost half the bladder cancer cases people develop. It also increases your risk of stroke and heart problems.

Even if AI finds a cure for 'cancer' which it won't, I don't know why these people think the technology is going to be readily available for their treatment. I'm gonna state this again, these are the people working on the forefront of AI.

What the heck are you talking about. They'll just need to adapt their prompt to include, "Solve ALL cancers. Do not make a mistake." and they'll have it!

Pussies. They should take up heroin to prove their faith that AI will come up with a cure for heroin addiction.

we know multiple solutions to global warming, but none that keep both the environment and industry alive

Or they could believe AI will kill them sooner than cancer.

Either way, I'm not that impressed with Shyam Sankar's rhetoric.

A bit lame. If they really believed they would use something that gives you cancer quicker.
We have a bunch of chemicals that will do the trick.

I'm coming to the conclusion a good chunk of civilisation is suffering from ELIZA syndrome.

I suspect cults have a better five year survival rate.

I heard that blowing your brains out with a .45 round cures cancer.

I learned pretty much this from a Kurzgesagt and maybe some comments from Hank Green. This is not deep cancer lore that only cancer experts know.

Maybe they all think something else is gonna kill them before they get cancer, or retire and need all that wasted cigarette money?

I suppose this comes down to natural selection.

Even if I was 100% convinced that AI could cure cancer, I'd be more convinced about Big Pharma not relinquishing a multi billion dollar a year treatment industry.

So either a bunch of cancer is cured or these peiple die horrific deaths? Not seeing a downside really...

This is genuinely the stupidest shit I've read in a little while, and I've read a lot of stupid shit lately.

Now that just pisses me off more. As someone who thoroughly enjoyed smoking but has stayed quit since the 90s, one of the things that has kept me quit has been the very quiet idea in the back of my head that if I ever needed to, if I ever really needed to, I could and would.

But the deal is I have to hold out as long as possible, or until an occasion where it no longer really matters. Meaning that because I'm a fucking mule of stubbornness I would probably see a mushroom cloud on the horizon and then die cursing that I have no time to fire up one last smoke for the occasion.

I don't even remember the exact year I quit now. I only remember I made that deal with myself and have kept it, and how good that very first toke of the very first cig is: all the rest go very quickly downhill from there and you're back to tasting like an ashtray and feeling like shit and wheezing up stairs. (Yes, it took me multiple tries to quit.) But I always had that one fantastic "emergency" first toke hidden in the back of my wallet of self-restraint.

And now these motherfuckers have taken that too. Pride's not great for much, but goddamn if I'll join these little pricks in a smoke. They've just sucked all the joy out of even the thought of it. Probably for the best, but damn. Hope it kills the little shits.

Which makes these AI motherfuckers all the more dumb as fuck

From one ex-smoker to another, take some solace in the fact that they're at the extreme tippy top of the Dunning-Kruger curve and somehow think cancer is just one thing. There's so many different kinds of cancer they're hard to enumerate. With any luck you and I both will watch them slowly kill themselves in their death cult while we still have that last smoke tucked away in our back pocket.

Probably not, vegans still contribute to global warming, just less so in one area. Even if there existed a person who made perfect consumption choices in every case, they still occasionally need to travel by motor, they use some form of heating, and they use buildings which used cement at some point in their construction or during renovations. Also, we’re all pretty inefficient digesters, and the more fiber you eat, the more methane you emit.

What are you some kind of weak kneed unbeliever? True faith is speed balling fent and meth with a barbiturate comedown on a 3 day cycle. AI will solve all the adverse health affects in the next year for sure. Anyone who says otherwise just doesn't really believe in AI.

Cancer isn't the only lethal outcome from smoking.

With any luck you and I both will watch them slowly kill themselves in their death cult while we still have that last smoke tucked away in our back pocket.

Thanks. May it be so. (Good to hear I'm not the only one with that last one in reserve.)

You know, I remember at the time looking at non-smokers, both ex- and never-, and just kind of wishing I could be where they were already because that was one hell of a battle. I was able to do it, but it took me far, far longer to stop thinking about it than to stop doing it.

At some point I made it; I rarely even think about smoking anymore. But even now, every so often when the shit's hitting the fan of life I'll think about it, briefly picture myself sitting on some dock on a silent water at sunset, sprawled on a lounger wearing a shitty hat and smoking that imagined last smoke, and then quickly think: "Not there yet. Long way to go. Cut that shit out." And I do, and don't think of it again for weeks. But I do still think of it, even after all these years. That's how addictive it is.

They'll wish they were us soon enough.

Natural selection I guess 🤷

Beautiful.

"Sankar did not name any researchers or provide evidence for the claim."

Cool. Excellent thing to write a news article about, Business Insider.

And I guess it's also going to solve emphysema, strokes atherosclerosis, erectile dysfunction, etc. etc.

And in the meantime they'll stink.

I heard that AI has almost cured gunshots. Anyone up for a friendly game of Russian Roulette?

Thiel, the surveillance obssesed anti-chist wants to live forever too, thats why he has his young models that he can drain the blood from, one of them whom he got defenestrated in 2024.

if you get cancer from smoking that is.

A lifetimes worth of fun. Guaranteed

Well it's not like the were swimming in offers to begin with, so in the long run it probably won't make a difference.

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I'm sure. As if big tech could lose more credibility. The entire industry is a fraud today.